Accenture Acquires Provider of Pegasystems’ BPM Services

2010-11-30

Global 360 Rolls Out Vertical BPM Business Templates

2010-11-16

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will employ BPM from Appian and  immixGroup to streamline and manage key business and governance processes. One goal of the five-year contract aims to speed approval and certification of medical devices.   

Online educator Western Governors University is using Active Endpoints ActiveVOS business process management system (BPMS) to streamline its student change management process, cutting time and expenses for such operations by up to 80%.

Progress Software is looking to lower the cost and complexity of end-to-end BPM projects with an innovative approach to allow ISVs to BPM-enable business applications directly. The Progress OpenEdge BPM initiative looks to cut DBMS licensing fees and reduce deployment complexity.

Active Endpoints, Inc is shipping an upgrade to its flagship ActiveVOS BPM software product. ActiveVOS 8.0 adds key supports for standards, security and ease-of use to improve collaboration between knowledge experts and solutions architects, according to a company official.

Apriso is shipping FlexNet version 9.5, an updated version of its business process management (BPM) software for manufacturers.  The package improves collaboration among cross-functional teams by offering improved role separation, advanced blueprinting and prototyping capabilities.

Pegasystems Inc. is shipping expanded BPM capabilities tuned expressly for  communications and media market, thanks to adding a Communications Foundation framework to its SmartBPM.  The upgrade provides a pre-built, industry-standard data model for communication firms – such as wireless, cable, wireline, broadband, convergent, and xVNO.

Microgen is shipping an upgrade to its Aptitude business platform process (BPP). Aptitude 3.0 improves performance and functionality for its SOA-based platform, which integrates BPM, ETL, business rules, data management and process optimization for structured and unstructured data. 

Oracle’s just-announced Business Process Management Suite 11g aims to simplify and improve effectiveness of enterprise-wide BPM projects with key upgrades.  Oracle BPM Suite 11g sports a unified process foundation, a user-centric design and collaboration tools to put IT and business stakeholders on the same page.

‘The Future of BPM,’ an online conference for Business Process Management will be held June 29, and will attract some 1,000 IT executives and business managers.  BPM experts from IBM, Oracle Corp., Metastorm and Progress Software will present, according to the event’s producer Integration Developer News.

Virtusa Corp. a global IT services firm which sees BPM-in-the-cloud is gaining momentum, is offering wide support for Pegasystems’ SmartPaaS BPM, including consulting, implementation and management services.